Calamity Roe. Fed up. Grandma gets it.

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The Roe versus Wade reversal surprised me. The arguments against it had been around forever. This recounting of five of them seems to me to be as good as any. Nonetheless, the court has been timid in general and especially reluctant to overturn precedent. What happened? I think the nation is simply fed up.

We are fed up with duplicity – one law for them, one for us. The persecution of the January 6 people, contrasted with the kid gloves treatment of Black Lives Matter and now the Stephen Colbert parallel situation.

We are fed up with the blatant discrimination against white people. We have an articulate, if reluctant hero now in Jodi Shaw, formerly of Smith College, describing it in brilliant detail. Watch especially the last 15 minutes.

We are fed up with the tyranny of Covid. Watch Jim Jordan exquisitely take apart Deborah Birx with regard to the "science."

jj: when the government told us the vaccinated could not transmit it (covid), was that a lie or a guess?

db: “i think it was hope”

jj: “i’m just struck with the irony. we’ve got government agencies guessing, hoping, or lying with the information they’re presenting to the american people and this is the same administration that wants to set up the disinformation governance board and want to talk about misinformation. they are the biggest purveyor of misinformation, false information, hopeful information, but not accurate and true information…”

We are fed up with the bankers and the oligarchs. The government keeps printing money which seems to flow straight into the pockets of Bill Gates, George Soros, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the Google guys.  Directly and indirectly – their assets are inflating at a tremendous rate at the same time they are flooded with income.

In the meantime we hoi polloi see meager if any increases in our income and rampant inflation eroding its value. It is bad enough in America; it seems to be even worse here in Europe. The central bankers and treasury secretary (Janet Yellen in both roles) are revealed to be clueless. They have only one broken tool, printing money.

To recapitulate, the ordinary people of America, us descendants of the founding fathers and Europeans of a century ago, are running out of patience. We are waking up to the fact that our elected representatives and appointed judiciary have not been serving our interests. We are letting them know, and they are responding to the vox populii as they have not for a long time.

The left, which hit its acme with the (many consider fraudulent) election of (many consider senile) Joe Biden, is in a freefall. The radicals refuse to shut up, scaring the bejezus out of liberal elites, who just want power and would just as soon forget the principles to which they pay lip service.

It will be interesting to watch how this plays out. I am glad to be watching from the top row of the bleachers, far far from the action.

I recently wrote that Zoriana had killed our Internet – cut the fiber-optic cable. She got a severe warning that the next time she did something similar she would get a spanking. That next thing, destroying her mother’s embroidery covered Easter egg, led to a mild spanking. She had been good as gold for two days, then today she blew a soft drink through a straw all over her mother’s computer.

I had told her I would spank her severely. She got eight good whacks with the flat of my hand. Grandmother, as usual, had some advice. This time laughably good. She told me I would hurt my hand and went out to the yard to get me an appropriate green twig from the jasmine bush.

Oksana gave the argument that psychologists will always offer, that Zoriana simply needs attention. We do give her lots of it. Still, we can’t afford to have our stuff broken and stolen. We need results. Change. Not explanations. I had a ton of explanations with my first family but no action and nothing changed. Not ever, so far as I know. I’m going with grandma, though I think my hand will suffice.

Zoriana is a smart girl but a very willful one. We need to steer her talents in a productive direction. She accepts that the punishment is fair and still hugs me as tight as ever. You never know exactly what to do, but neither do the shrinks. Difference is that I can admit it.  This is what I am doing.

That’s the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the men are strong, the women are good looking, and the children are above average.  When we can coax it out of them.

Graham